When students at the former Dobrosevici Elementary School on the outskirts of Sarajevo return to class after their summer break, they'll see familiar faces, textbooks, and desks.

What won't be familiar is the nameplate on the school itself.

In a controversial move, the authorities renamed the school last week after Mustafa Busuladzic, a Bosniak activist whose fascist and anti-Semitic views during World War II ended with his execution in 1946.

The change in name came after a heated battle in the city council over whether Busuladzic's role as a distinguished Muslim intellectual outweighed his support of Adolf Hitler and Germany's Third Reich during the war.

Busuladzic was arrested but never legally convicted for his actions. Some in Bosnia-Herzegovina consider him a martyr.

Islamic State has threatened Pope Francis in a new video which shows extremists tearing pictures of the Catholic leader in half and promising to come to Rome.

In footage posted online, masked and armed men ransack and burn a church in the Philippines, where the group has been fighting for control of the southern city of Marawi.

One, named Abu Jindal (pictured above), says in English: "We will make revenge. Remember this, you kuffar (insult for non-Muslims) - we will be in Rome, we will be in Rome, inshallah (god willing)'.

The threat was made in latest 'Inside the Khilafah' video, an Islamic State publication. The footage appears to focuses on the historic conflict between Christianity and Islam.

Busts of Jesus and Mary are seen being stamped on, while pictures of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis are ripped and thrown on the ground.

In 2016, Afghanistan ranked second in the top countries of origin in EU Member States plus Norway and Switzerland countries, with more than 175,000 applicants seeking asylum. In the first seven months of 2017, more than 28,000 applications have been lodged in the region by Afghans, still ranking second.

These are the findings by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), which published a Country of Origin Information (COI) Report entitled 'Afghanistan Key socio-economic indicators, state protection, and mobility in Kabul City, Mazar-e Sharif, and Herat City'.

In addition, the Afghan applications constitute the largest backlog of all countries of origin. At the end of July 2017, there were more than 93,000 asylum applications from Afghan nationals in the EU Member States plus Norway and Switzerland countries pending at first instance.

The report provides a general description of the socio-economic situation in three cities in Afghanistan - Kabul, Mazar-e Sharif and Herat - covering the following topics: economic growth; employment; poverty; food security; access to education; health care; housing; and coping strategies.

Canada will begin offering a third gender option on the country's passports and immigration documents at the end of this month.

Ahmed Hussen, Canada's immigration minister, announced that the new gender designation 'X' would come into effect from August 31.

"By introducing an 'X' gender designation in our government-issued documents, we are taking an important step towards advancing equality for all Canadians regardless of gender identity or expression," Hussen said in a statement Thursday.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will be the first to introduce interim measures which will allow passport holders to add the 'X.' This solution will be in place until the IRCC can print the documents with the new designation.

A plane carrying five Russian-speaking kids who were left stranded in an orphanage in Baghdad arrived in Russia on Friday. The children were brought to Iraq by their radicalized parents, some of whom apparently joined the Islamic State terrorist group.

The kids landed in the capital of Russia's Chechen Republic, Grozny, with relatives and medics already awaiting them on the airfield. According to Chechnya's head, Ramzan Kadyrov, all of the orphans were from the neighboring Republic of Dagestan.

The children's return became possible after their story was brought to light by RT as part of the "Bring them home" campaign, which calls on anyone with information about the children in the broadcaster's videos from Iraq to submit it at children@rttv.ru. RT's footage was shared online by Kadyrov, who played an active part in the operation to bring the kids back. It also involved Russia's Foreign Ministry and politicians from Jordan and Iraq.

Breaking with centuries-old tradition, Harvard is moving to eliminate its all-male final clubs, charging that the Porcellian, A.D., Fox, Fly, and other high-end frats are bastions of patriarchal privilege, fomenters of sexual misconduct, and antithetical to its values. Is any of that true? An alumnus considers the legal, moral, and logical flaws in the college's crusade.

In Harvard's relentless campaign to rid itself of the last seven of its all-male final clubs - the Porcellian, the A.D., the Fly, and four other high-end frats - most of what you need to know is encapsulated in the term the authorities use to refer to them: Unrecognized Single-Gender Social Organizations, or U.S.G.S.O.'s. Three parts Orwell, two parts Lenin, those five letters tell a lot about the mind-set of the bureaucrats who are, in the view of their detractors, going jihadi on these quirky, old-line places in frantic pursuit of "diversity" and "inclusion," two terms so ubiquitous on campus, according to the Fly Club's lawyer Harvey Silverglate, that they leave him feeling "murderous." And he's a card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U., a veteran of the Old Left who has had it with the New Left thought police. "They want a campus where everybody looks different but thinks alike," says Silverglate. "That is their definition of diversity."

Western media attempts to portray the recent deaths of Russian diplomats as some sort of conspiracy are part of a pattern where everything involving Russia is deemed to be suspicious. It's becoming very tiresome.

You might remember Richard Holbrooke? In the 1990's, as US ambassador to Germany, he played a prominent role in the Yugoslav conflict and then went on to serve as Washington's emissary to the United Nations. Later, he was appointed as President Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan; a very sensitive position then, as Osama bin Laden remained at large. Indeed, many considered him a likely secretary of state at one stage, but he backed the wrong horse in 2008 when getting behind Hillary Clinton, rather than eventual winner.

Anyway, back in December of 2010, the veteran diplomat was taken ill while working at the state department's headquarters. Sadly, two days later he died from complications of a torn aorta. At the time, it was revealed that his last words were "you've got to stop this war in Afghanistan."

Now, that sentence could have fueled a million conspiracy theories. Because numerous vested interests want to maintain America's never-ending war in the central Asian country, and plenty of money has been made from the conflict. Perhaps Holbrooke threatened the gravy train with his peacenik ways? Anyway, I don't recall any mainstream Russian, or American, news outlets suggesting he was murdered. It was accepted that the famous apparatchik died of natural causes, because, despite looking healthy, he was in his late 60's. And even famous and powerful people can die prematurely.

Regrettably, the American media doesn't observe the same decorum when speculating about the demise of Russian diplomats. And coverage of this weeks' unfortunate death of Russian Ambassador to Sudan Mirgayas Shirinsky is a particularly outrageous example.

A man armed with a knife attacked pedestrians in Marseilles early on Saturday and injured three people, with police not treating the incident as a terrorist attack, local media reported.

According to La Provence media outlet, the incident took place at around 07:00 a.m. (05:00 GMT).

The police apprehended the attacker and delivered him to a local psychiatric hospital.

The 35-year-old attacker is from Paris and was formerly known to the police in connection with a number of criminal offenses including robbery, the publication said.

A Pennsylvania priest, convicted of downloading child pornograhpy, said he commited the crime to get revenge on God - who he felt was attacking him when he lost poker games.

Kevin Gugliotta, 55, from Mahwah, New Jersey, and a former priest in Honesdale, PA, was sentenced to 11 to 23 months in jail on Thursday, with credit for 10 months of time served while awaiting trial.

According to pre-trial records, Gugliotta told probation officers that he was an avid poker player, and he felt God was attacking him when he lost games. To get revenge on God, Gugliotta said, he downloaded child pornography.

Police in Saudi Arabia have launched an investigation into an online video that appears to show a woman driving a car while disguised as a man.

Authorities in Al Khafji in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province identified the owner of the car, along with three other suspects, after the video of a woman in dark sunglasses, headdress and traditional thobe gown driving on a street appeared online earlier this week.

The car's owner did not make himself available for questioning until two days after the first request by police, according to Gulf News.